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Confederate (CSV)

Captain

Charles Hardy Burgin

(1837 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 22nd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was elected member of the State Legislature in 1860. On 5 June 1861, age 24, from McDowell County, he was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company K, 22nd North Carolina Infantry in McDowell County. He was promoted to Captain on 6 September 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action near Shepherdstown, VA (now WV) on 20 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died at Fredericksburg, VA on 15 (or 30) November (or 1 December) 1862.

References & notes

Service from the Roster 1 via the Historical Data Systems database. Details from a death notice in the Raleigh Weekly Standard of 7 January 1863. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/23/1837; Old Fort, Burke (now McDowell) County, NC

Death

11/15/1862; Fredericksburg, VA; burial in Ebenezer United Methodist Church Cemetery, Old Fort, NC

Notes

1 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19291]

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